In the year 2020, most of us are likely to get the Corona virus. While we witness the pandemic disease wreaking havoc around the globe, we must conclude that the new COVID19 virus does not make people ill enough, fast enough, to stop it from spreading rapidly. It has infected many, many people, because of its newness: we have no immunity yet, and no cure by medicine. All doctors can do is fight the symptoms and help people overcome the disease with all intensive care means available. Therefore, governments on every continent and in every country do what they can to protect our health care systems from being overwhelmed by deterring its spread (“flattening the curve”) as much as possible. A disease that infects great numbers of patients at the same time, results in a peak demand for our health care facilities and the margins of intensive care beds at hospitals can only absorb so much. The disease is unlikely to have serious consequences for healthy people, but if many chronically ill or vulnerable elderly get infected, it will put them in danger and our health care system under a lot of strain. What citizens really need to fear however, is not so much their personal infection with the virus, but the incompetence of their governments to respond to the threat adequately and transparently, as well as the counterproductive reactions by other citizens and actors. Trade wars regarding medical supplies, paralyzing lockdowns, disinformation campaigns, attacks on fellow citizens, hacks on health care institutes and panic buying are among the irrational and even downright outrageous responses. Combatting the Corona pandemic requires insights on the governance of crises, and on community resilience. From the perspective of even the most capable and responsive governments, COVID‐19 could be seen as a “creeping crisis”. As Arjen Boin, Magnus Ekengren and Mark Rhinard argue in the opening article of this RHCPP issue, creeping crisis have a “potential to undercut the legitimacy of public institutions”

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社论：Corona时代的理智与韧性

在2020年，我们大多数人都可能感染日冕病毒。当我们目睹大流行性疾病在全球范围内肆虐时，我们必须得出结论，新的COVID19病毒不能使人们患上足够严重的疾病，不能足够快地阻止其迅速传播。由于它的新颖性，它已经感染了许多人：我们还没有免疫力，也没有药物可以治愈。医生所能做的就是消除症状，并通过所有可用的重症监护手段帮助人们战胜疾病。因此，每个大陆和每个国家的政府都将尽其所能，通过尽可能地阻止其扩散（“平缓曲线”）来保护我们的医疗保健系统，以免被淹没。同时感染大量患者的疾病，导致对我们的医疗设施的需求达到峰值，而医院的重症监护床边只能吸收那么多。这种疾病不太可能对健康人造成严重后果，但是如果许多慢性病或脆弱的老年人受到感染，将使他们处于危险之中，并使我们的医疗保健系统承受很大压力。但是，公民真正需要担心的不是个人感染病毒，而是他们的政府无能力充分，透明地应对这一威胁，以及其他公民和行动者的适得其反。与医疗用品有关的贸易战，瘫痪的封锁，虚假的宣传运动，对同胞的袭击，对医疗机构的黑客攻击以及恐慌性的购买等都是非理性甚至是彻头彻尾的暴行。应对电晕大流行需要对危机治理和社区适应力的见解。从最有能力和反应最快的政府的角度来看，COVID-19可能被视为“爬行危机”。正如Arjen Boin，Magnus Ekengren和Mark Rhinard在本RHCPP问题的开篇文章中指出的那样，不断蔓延的危机“有可能削弱公共机构的合法性”